Inflation after Planck

27 Jan 2014, 09:00 → 29 Jan 2014, 18:00 Europe/Berlin

SR 2, building 2A (DESY Hamburg)

The aim of the workshop is to illuminate recent progress of inflationary model building in the context of supergravity. Topics will include new advances for conformal models, models of non-minimally coupled inflation in supergravity, string inflation, and precision constraints arising from the recent data from the PLANCK satellite.

The workshop includes 11-13 talks in three days. The talks will be 40 minutes plus 20 minutes discussion.




The list of speakers includes:

T. Battefeld G. D'Amico V. Domcke J. Ellis S. Ferrara D. Gorbunov S. Kraus

J.-L. Lehners C. Pallis A. Riotto D. Roest K. Schmitz A. Starobinsky

Public lecture, 29.01.:
Simon White: Lichtspur des Urknalls
Veranstaltungshaus der Patriotischen Gesellschaft von 1765,
Reimarus-Saal, Trostbrücke 6, 20457 Hamburg



If you have any questions regarding the organization, please contact Wilfried Buchmüller (DESY), Thomas Konstandin (DESY), Jan Louis (Uni HH) or Alexander Westphal (DESY).

Monday 27 January

14:00 → 15:00 Inflationary models most favoured by recent observational data

Speaker: Alexei Starobinsky

15:00 → 16:00 The universal attractor of inflation

Speaker: Diederik Roest

16:00 → 16:30 coffe break

16:30 → 17:30 The Starobinsky model from superconformal D-term inflation

Speaker: Valerie Domcke

18:00 → 20:00 Reception

Tuesday 28 January

09:00 → 10:00 Consistency Relations in the Large Scale Structure

Speaker: Antonio Riotto

10:00 → 10:30 coffee break

10:30 → 11:30 Models of non-minimal Inflation in SUGRA

Speaker: Konstantinos Pallis

11:30 → 12:30 Hybrid Inflation in the Complex Plane

Speaker: Kai Schmitz

12:30 → 14:00 lunch break

14:00 → 15:00 R+R2 theory of Supergravity and the Inflaton Potential

Speaker: Sergio Ferrara

15:00 → 16:00 The No-Boundary Proposal for Plateau Models of Inflation and for Cyclic Universes

Speaker: Jean-Luc Lehners

16:00 → 16:30 coffee break

16:30 → 17:30 Inflation, f(R)-gravity, and cosmic rays

Speaker: Dmitry Gorbunov

19:00 → 22:00 dinner

Wednesday 29 January

09:00 → 10:00 Inflation on Random Landscapes

Speaker: Thorsten Battefeld

10:00 → 10:30 coffee break

10:30 → 11:30 Hybrid Natural Inflation in String Theory

Speaker: Sebastian Kraus

11:30 → 12:30 Unwinding Inflation

Speaker: Guido D'Amico

12:30 → 14:30 lunch break

14:30 → 15:30 SFB colloquium: Blowing up the Universe for Pedestrians

Speaker: John Ellis